CASE STUDIES
Learn How HV-100 Robots are impacting operations like yours every day
Added Bonus
HV-100 Efficient Hex Spacing leads to rebate from energy provider
Payback
HV-100s Can have a dramatic impact on worker safety and compensation claims
Spacing Altman Plants
Labor savings with HV-100s allow for spacing and peak shipping to happen at once
Grow it Once
Spacing consistently and on time with HV-100s has positive impact on bottom line
Crop Protection
HV-100s not only space pots but can also gather them for seasonal protection
HV-100
Harvest Automation's flagship product is designed to move plants in commercial growing operations. The robots work safely alongside people and require minimal training to operate, while reducing production costs and improving productivity.
HV-100 Features
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Effective in greenhouse, hoop house and open nursery environments
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High placement accuracy
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Handles all common container types and sizes
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Quick swap rechargeable batteries for 24/7 operation
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Minimal training and setup
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No programming required
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Works on all common growing terrain
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No or minimal changes to existing infrastructure
GreenElf Fertilizer Applicator Kit
The HV-100 can now combine moving plants with the application of granular fertilizer – two jobs in one! We partnered with the world famous GreenElf Works to bring you a simple mounting kit for their model 501 applicator. Our applicator kit mounts on a standard HV-100 robot to fully automate the application of precise doses of granular fertilizer while moving plants for spacing, collection or consolidation.
GreenElf Applicator Kit
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The famous GreenElf 501 Applicator as seen at www.greenelfworks.com
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Automatically applies a precise dose of granular fertilizer while moving plants
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Easy bolt on assembly fits all models of HV-100
Harvest Automation is committed to servicing its customers with the highest level of support by responding quickly to issues and working continually to respond to their needs. Email is a great way to reach the entire support team with one click, so please reach out at any time at support@harvestai.com, and we will get back to you promptly. If you would like to speak with us directly, please call 978-528-4250 and ask for a call back.
WORLD CLASS SERVICE & SUPPORT
HARVEST KNOWLEDGE
The Harvest Knowledge website is the up-to-date source for all HV-100 support documentation AND the all new HV-100 real-time Dashboard. It is a portal for our customers to obtain a wide range of detailed information about their robots including a variety of documentation, training videos, support materials, and the latest robot usage reports. Each customer has their own secure, unlimited and private access privileges. The site can be found at https://knowledge.harvestai.com. Customers requiring a login and password should contact Customer Support at support@harvestai.com
The support resources Harvest Knowledge contains are for the benefit of everyone across the organization including Planners, Operators and Service.
- QuickStart Guides on topics like field setup, error handling and a Preventive Maintenance Checklist to keep the robots running at their best.
- Training Material for everyone in the organization who interacts with the robots, plus a deep dive for Operators.
- Detailed Reference Documents that cover every aspect of operating, troubleshooting, shipping and communicating with your robots.
- Service Procedures that cover every detail of these 'designed-for-service' machines.
- Videos that will help you understand a variety of topics on the operation and care for the HV-100s
Documentation
Helpful documentation from Harvest Knowledge includes the Operator Reference Manual, Error Guide, Troubleshooting Guide, and Service Procedures
Dashboard
The new Dashboard is a webpage that links directly to your robots on a local WiFi network. With this, everyone on site can see the productivity and status of the robots that day. Updates are provided every minute the robots are connected. Whether it is on your office computer or smartphone, everyone in the organization has access to key performance indicators, even when offsite.
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Operators can keep track of the numbers of pots moved and get instant help with errors the robots may have.
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Supervisors can see if the work completed is on track to meet daily targets.
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Service personnel can see if any hardware problems are showing up that may be impacting productivity and in need of their attention.
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Reports are available that include detailed lifetime stats on performance and function of your HV-100 robots.
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Lifetime stats for your robots is also published.
2013
US Product Introduction
200+
HV-100s Deployed
Global
US, Canada, France, Holland, Germany, Australia
$15
Minimum wage coming to many US states
COMPANY
Harvest Automation was founded by Charles Grinnell and a small team of world-class robotic innovators in 2008. They started with a broad search across multiple industries to identify critical market challenges that could be addressed with practical robotic solutions. They found an excellent fit and great starting point for the company in material handling for the Nursery and Greenhouse industry. After working closely with numerous industry leaders, the HV-100 was born: the world’s first fully autonomous robot that works alongside people in unmodified industrial environments. Fast forward to today and hundreds of HV-100s have been deployed at more than 50 top growers across North America, the EU and in Australia.
Harvest’s robots enable smarter production for growers by providing significant gains in productivity, efficiency and plant quality. Addressing labor scarcity issues, Harvest enables growers to create a sustainable workforce of robots working safely alongside people to combat a volatile labor market with a shrinking pool of available workers. Harvest’s robots can perform as much manual labor as required by each grower, creating more capacity for human workers to focus on other tasks. The robots can also increase plant quality by optimizing plant placement in the fields and reduce non‐labor production costs including the use of water, pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.
With pressures from labor, production costs, and environmental factors on the rise, the need for robotics in agriculture has never been greater. Today the team at Harvest is focused on continuing to improve the HV-100 while also working to expand into other agricultural markets such as fruit and vegetable production. Our new push with robots will help workers be more productive by reducing their walk time during harvest, help growers produce more crops per acre, and allow crops to be grown anywhere in the country that land and water are economical. The future is very bright and productive working with Harvest Automation!
THE SOLUTION
Harvest has developed a new approach to automating a variety of traditionally manual labor tasks based on mobile robots working with people. Teams of small, highly intelligent machines work safely with laborers to perform the most physically demanding parts of these tasks, and at a significantly reduced cost.
Smart
At Harvest, we use an approach called Behavior-Based Robotics. Our intelligent, adaptive approach to automation provides a scalable and robust system architecture for robots to work in even the most challenging environments. Harvest’s platform responds immediately to changes in the work environment, intelligently accounts for imperfect sensory data and requires little set-up and programming.
Practical
Harvest robots are small, safe, and easy to service. They are practical for customer to use: easy to program, flexible and easy to deploy. There is very little need to change existing infrastructure or workflows and customers can choose to scale the number of robots deployed to match work that needs to be done.
Sustainable
Harvest robots are designed to work alongside people. We believe the highest value can often be derived by smartly dividing the work between people and machines. Humans will perform some tasks, robots will perform others. Harvest robots have the ability to see obstacles and navigate in a changing environment accordingly. Harvest robots are designed to collect, track and communicate information so that owners can effectively record and plan work.
Harvest robots are helping our customers solve the problems associated with the uncertainty of a workforce (availability, cost, overhead, etc.) Robots provide a reliable, consistent and predictable quality and throughput from the beginning to the end of each shift.
CONTACT
Inquiries
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